Finally, some humor! Yeah, I'm not so good at it but I try.
Disclaimer: see ch. 1
Birth: the act or process of bearing or bringing forth offspring; childbirth; parturition
Fives is billeted with an accommodating Saleucami family when the mother gives birth to the family's seventh child. He'd heard some of Cody's boys talk about how nice children were. He can't agree less. The infant is a horrifying shade of grey-pink, covered in something like clotted cheese and mucus and as wrinkled as Yoda. She hiccups and starts to make sounds that Fives is sure no human should be able to make. The family coos at her and pets her exhausted mother. Fives frowns. He doesn't understand; he's sure he never looked that awful emerging from his growth vat.